â€śThereâ€™s something to be said about the feeling of stepping out of Gene Trippâ€™s sound, like youâ€™ve just awoken from an enlightening deep slumber- one that helps you romanticize sadness the way you did with music in your self-indulgent teen years. From the mind and unmatched talent of artists like Jay Hufman (Cherie Cherie) and Lonna Kelly (Giant Sand, Cherie Cherie), Phoenixâ€™s own Gene Tripp has released Happy Plaza to introduce us to a sound soaked in reverb and dark alt-country melodies that truly make you feel like youâ€™re floating- and reminds you to slow down. Gene Tripp unravels a calculated and controlled psychedelic sound that moves freely a bravely- a paradox you donâ€™t see often enough. The deeply appealing darkness of a debut album like Happy Plaza gives us a glimpse of the magnitude that is to come from a band that carries such talent.â€ť